7 April - 13 April 2015 Alex Bunn, Jonas Ranson, Katrina Kotcheff, Nana & Felix, Sumer Erek, Gareth Lloyd, Yutaka Inagawa, Naoya Inose Curated by Christina Mitrentse Projects www.cmitrentseprojects.com
8 Clarendon Cross | W11 4AP laceycontemporarygallery.co.uk
COVER/BACK IMAGE: JONAS RANSON - Maison De Retraite Hand –pulled CMYK Screen print on 285gsm fabriano avorio paper, ltd of 15 signed & numbered, 80x60cm £750 framed and £350 unframed
Lacey Contemporary Gallery is proud to present ‘Relational Extravaganza : Arbitrary Dreams’ a dynamic multi-media group exhibition encompassing a collection of painting, photography, print and sculpture, created by eight carefully selected, emerging artists, and curated by Christina Mitrentse Projects. The exhibition reveals the artists diverse working processes, styles, medium and scale. The seductively deceptive artworks offer a case study of the aesthetical interaction between nature, seduction, & commodification. While the selected artists produce an assortment of highly stimulating visual data, there is a common thread holding the works together –in search of Aesthetic Forms and their Opposites, they echo abstraction.
ALEX BUNN Oslo based British artist Alex Bunn, creates supersensory large scale images that explore fresh realms of combined sculpture and photography, and they reconcile disparate perspectives on the world around us. Bunn's work can be seen as an attempt to reconcile the various models, modes and statuses we employ to navigate and engage with the cosmos without compromising it's natural disorder. Alex Bunn’s work has been exhibited at the Frieze Art Fair, The Royal Institution, in solo shows at Aubin Gallery, Another Roadside Attraction Gallery Unit24 in London as well as in New York, Tokyo and Stockholm.
ALEX BUNN - Defixion Trap Giclee print on board 150x 150x10cm 2015 £2700
ALEX BUNN - Pump Giclee print on board 150x 150x10cm 2015 £2700
GARETH LLOYD Gareth Lloyd is a painter who studied technical and industrial drawing at Berkshire College of Art and completed a post-graduated fine art degree at St Martins School of Art. His doctoral research in philosophy at the University of London, examined 'Image' in the light of Derrida's notion of 'Return Inquiry'. Drawing inspiration from the cinema, Lloyd plays with iconography, but the icons at its heart are not those of classical painting, they stem instead from the kind of imagery that has become iconic merely because of the role it has played in all our everyday histories. - Paul Ryan Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
GARETH LLOYD - Dreaming Milk & Honey Print, paper, oil, graphite and gesso, milk & honey on Masonite 152 x91cm with oak frame, 2014 ÂŁ3500
JONAS RANSON Jonas Ranson is an established British screen-printer and graduate of the Royal College of Art. His images engage with the aesthetic experience that emerges from perceiving boundless landscape.Through obtrusive fractures, darkness, obscurity, privation and vastness, the images encompass subjects relating to the apocalyptic, biblical, and the sublime. The Landscapes become a metaphysical realm for the purging of emotional trauma. Jonas Ranson work is a part of significant national public collections including Pallant House Gallery.
JONAS RANSON - Gone To Earth Hand pulled ,Screen print on paper ltd of 15 signed & numbered, 100x70cm £750 framed and £350 unframed
NANA & FELIX Nana & Felix is a Korean-Finnish artist duo who work on photography-based project and are based in Finland. For this exhibition they present new work from their popular ‘Ways of Seeing’ series.They re-document and re-assemble what they see in those desire-oriented found, public, and superficial images, present in their everyday environment, both online and offline, in order to question their ways of seeing. Through a photographic play, Felix reproduces and distorts the image with the aim of questioning which one is the referent and which the representation. Nana cuts and freely assembles these photographs, in order to reconstruct and to translate the same repetitive nature of the image while questions the ontological state of Nybergh´s photographs. Nana & Felix have won many awards and their work is in collection at City of Turku, Finland.
NANA & FELIX - 5mm of Ibid – Ways of Seeing Series 60 inject prints, shredded photograph placed on a mirror 60x75cm, 2013 £3200
NANA & FELIX - SoMe 01 (faces) mixed media 60 x 68 x 10 cm, 2015 £3500
NANA & FELIX - SoMe 02 (bodies) mixed media 43 x 50 x 8 cm, 2015 £3500
NAOYA INOSE Naoya Inose is a Japanese painter and graduate from Tokyo University of the Arts, with a BA in Oil Painting. He is currently based in London . His works are included in Takahasi Collection FONDAZIONE BENETTON. Inose work explores the tension between the natural world and its grasping appropriation by human influence. Drawing from traditional genre of painting, Inose uses oil paint techniques to create both meticulously realistic landscapes, and abstract oil paintings on canvas which question our perception of and relationship to nature, and the paintings’ historical and current role.
NAOYA INOSE - Untitled acrylic on canvas 10x10cm £550
NAOYA INOSE - Commonplaces oil, acrylic, alkyd, gesso, pencil on canvas 18x14cm, 2013 ÂŁ900
NAOYA INOSE - Escape Acrylic, alkyd, Oil on canvas 60x60cm, 2015 NFS (private collection)
SUMER EREK Sumer Erek is a multi-disciplinary conceptual creator with extensive experience in public art installation, creating large-scale works and participatory projects in the UK and abroad. He studied an MA in Theory and Practice of Transnational Art at Camberwell – UAL. In his site specific sculptural installation The Sound of Cicadas on five finger mountains, Mountains and cicadas becomes the metaphor for the politicised nature of our created existence. This installation is made from tiles of scaled-down images of the mountains, like the war game console. Empty cicadas shells, collected from Cyprus and filled with dye, gather the reminiscent of cataleptic existence, and further investigates the conflict between the nature and man; individual and society. (detail) SUMER EREK - The Sound of Cicadas on five finger mountains installation mixed media 74x107x75 cm, 2015 £3200
YUTAKA INAGAWA Japanese artist Yutaka Inagawa graduated with an MA from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2004. He has been widely exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in France, U.S, Japan, Seoul, Shanghai and London.Yutaka’s diverse body of work stems from his fascination with the notion of deceptiveness and integrity in digital photo manipulation and painting. This gradual shift in reality and perception manifest itself as a form of enigmatic complexity in the artist’s detailed oil paintings. A twisted fusion of the West and Japan, blurs the seriousness of identity and race.
YUTAKA INAGAWA - Shoulder-Oompj-Kouros 1 oil on canvas 70x62cm, 2014 £1700
YUTAKA INAGAWA Shoulder-Oompj-Kouros 2 oil on canvas 70x62cm, 2014 £1700
YUTAKA INAGAWA Matter-Of-Fact oil on canvas 70x62cm, 2014 £1700
KATRINA KOTCHEFF Born in London Katrina Kotcheff is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, film, installation, and drawing. She studied architecture and BA Fine Art at the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design and has since worked in UK film and television. She has exhibited widely in group art shows and galleries in East London. She also exhibited at theVenice Biennale as part of Personal Structures: ‘Culture/ Mind/ Becoming’ exhibition. In this show she presents photographic works from her personal archive, or in this case Anti-archive; as through a random event, a collection of photographs were damaged by water, separating out the colour chemical processes, they are transformed into new evocative images. This destruction is the very thing that brings them new life, connecting water and memory. Photographs Grass Cloud I and II were originally taken (1987) on a sea wall in The Wash in Norfolk where the land has been reclaimed over time from the sea. In Rainbow Head, a portrait of the artist (1990 ), the hair has turned into a myriad of colours, framing the face creating an other worldly landscape..
KATRINA KOTCHEFF - Grassland Cloud Colour Photographic Giclee prints edition of 10, signed & numbered 68x45cm, 2015 £800
RELATIONAL EXTRAVAGANZA : ARBITRARY DREAMS 7 April - 13 April 2015
KATRINA KOTCHEFF - Seawall Colour Photographic Giclee prints edition of 10, signed & numbered 68x45cm, 2015 £800